Edgar Dutka

The Pit (2025)

In a desolate landscape process strange creatures. The foreman of the group picks a suitable spot and the whole multiplying colony starts excavating a pit. They encounter various natural disasters that ruin their efforts – but the colonists always rise f ...

Výměna rolí (2018)

A series of short blackouts on the theme of who controls whom and who manipulates whom. ...

Laika (2017)

Life is not easy for Laika, a dog on the outskirts of a big Russian city. She is caught and forcibly retrained to become a pioneer in astronautics. Soon after her lift-off into space, a number of animals follow that are hurriedly launched from Houston and ...

Toys in the Attic (2009)

In an attic full of discarded junk, a pretty doll called Buttercup lives in an old trunk together with her friends, the marionette Prince Charming, lazy Teddy Bear and the plasticine creature Schubert. When Buttercup is snatched and taken off to the Land o ...

Jan Werich's Fimfarum (2002)

Humorous as well as educational stories about magical and everyday problems, about devils, miracles, ordinary human vices and wisdom. The graphic design of the stories reflects the humour and the atmosphere of the stories Fimfárum, When the Leaves Fall fr ...

I Met Him in the ZOO (1994)

There are two different boys in the zoo. Ivoš is a small wrestler who wanders himself in the barracks when a blind boy throws it and squeezes it with lemonade. Out of a primordial friendship will spring up. Both of them love animals, and Ivoš decides to ...

When the Oak Leaves Fall (1991)

The story is a celebration of the cleverness and wit of the simple peasant Čupera, who triumphs not only over the demon of alcohol, but also over the bureaucratically persistent and thorough devil. The hell that the farmer goes through during the withdraw ...

Darkness, Light, Darkness (1990)

A human body gradually reconstructs itself as its various component parts crowd themselves into a small room and eventually, after much experimentation, sort out which part goes where. ...

Mean Barbara (1989)

When the village school master discovers the body of a mean-spirited, miserly old woman, with whom he has had a disagreement, he decides to dispose of the body himself without alerting anyone else to it, but when the body is discovered by another villager ...

Club of the Discarded (1989)

Laid-off old mannequins spend their cracked and broken lives in an old, abandoned warehouse. New mannequins are brought to the warehouse. They are old as well, but from a younger generation. The two groups must live together, but it's not easy at all. ...

Bread and Show (1988)

Shakespeare 2000 (1988)

A satiric film travesty of Shakespeare's dramas set in the year 2000. The protagonists are to convince the audience that human passions such as love, hatred, jealousy, etc. remain unchanged even 500 years later (paralleling the up-to-date quality of Shakes ...

Virile Games (1988)

A man sits down to watch a football match, which seems to consist of the players being violently mutilated in various inventive ways. The players then leave the football pitch and invade the spectator's flat. ...

The Tinderbox (1987)

A modern version of a classical fairy-tale by Hans Christian Andersen about a veteran who got rich thanks to a magic flint and thus he could marry a beautiful princess. ...

Barricade (1985)

What can happen on Friday the 13th in the animated grotesque by artist Miroslav Barták... ...

The Pit, the Pendulum and Hope (1983)

Animated short film based on Edgar Allan Poe's "The Pit and the Pendulum" and Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam's "A Torture by Hope". ...

Dimensions of Dialogue (1983)

Three surreal depictions of failures of communication that occur on all levels of human society. ...

A Ballad About Green Wood (1983)

Pieces of wood are captured by a crow and dance in celebration of spring in this animated short film. ...

Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, a Sailor from York (1982)

The picture, unlike the other film adaptations of the story, focuses much more on Crusoe's life before and after his stay on the island. Following the principle of setting the novel right, it describes Crusoe's experiences with delicate irony and understan ...

Proč se lidé bojí zajíců (1981)

Pharaoh's daughter (1980)

The Tinker's Tale (1980)

Konec krychle (1979)

A satire on modern housing and tiny apartment architecture. ...

Maryshka and the Wolf's Castle (1979)

A fairy-tale about a brave, self-sacrificial and faithful girl named Maryska who sets free an enchanted princess and her twelve maids from a mysterious castle. ...

Goodbye, Ophelia (1979)

An animated lecture that gives young girls life advice when it comes to male conquerors and the like. Czech animated film for adults. ...

Omnifurous (1978)

A king and his three daughters must contend with the hairy wiles of the "ugly bastard" known as Omnifurous. ...

Mimicry (1975)

Jiří Trnka: A Long Lost Friend (2019)

A story of an extraordinary artist who has unintentionally signed a deal with a devil. Jiří Trnka was one of the biggest Czech artists of the 20th century and one of the founders of the puppet animation. His work demonstrated the world that communist soc ...

Flower Buds (2011)

Flower Buds tells the story of the gradual breakdown of a family living in a small town. Each character lives according to his or her own ideals. Agata wants a happy life far from home, fully aware that her only hope is to escape and therefore betray those ...

Bezúčelná procházka Jiřího Barty (1999)

Katapult (1984)

Adaptation of Vladimir Paral's comic novel, which criticizes consumerism as an attitude of life. ...